Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction Photos

2023-04-22 Thread Larry Colen
I used the latest LRC to process a bunch of photos I did of a friend’s CD release/birthday party. I basically did the processing the day before I moved, so I just narrowed the sets down to “proof” level. One of my final steps was to do a mass application of noise reduction. Some photos (wide

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction Photos

2023-04-22 Thread Comcast
Looks good. Not at all waxy to my eye. (Which is admittedly worn out.) I have a lot of pics I shot at 51200 when I was photographic tavern pool tournaments. Some were pushed a stop or more beyond that in post. I’ll have to dig some out. Sounds like fun. Paul > On Apr 22, 2023, at 7:10 PM,

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > ... > For people who use photoshop $10/month is a great deal. For people who only > use lightroom, it’s not such a good deal, as much or more as we were paying > for annual upgrades, and we simply lose the ability to continue using an >

ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction Photos

2023-04-22 Thread Bill
I found a K5 file shot at ISO 51200. I doubt very much if I had in camera noise reduction turned on. The first image is the raw file at whatever defaults Lightroom opened it with. The second is with Denoise used, no other changes. I left a small amount of noise in to give the skin some texture. If

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Bill
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 10:52 AM Comcast wrote: > I don’t know what “ransomware” is, but photoshop online has been a great > deal. It’s installed on my box and faster than the last CC version. It > costs ten bucks a month and includes bridge, ACR, photoshop, Lightroom and > more. It upgrades

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Apr 22, 2023, at 12:09 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 22.04.23 um 18:51 schrieb Comcast: >> I don’t know what “ransomware” is, but photoshop online has been a great >> deal. It’s installed on my box and faster than the last CC version. It costs >> ten bucks a month and includes

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Sounds reasonable. I have never used Lightroom for more than a few minutes, so I’m not aware of it’s peculiarities. Paul > On Apr 22, 2023, at 6:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >  > >> On Apr 22, 2023, at 2:53 PM, Comcast wrote: >> >> Of course. But it’s also important to note that Adobe

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Larry Colen
> On Apr 22, 2023, at 2:53 PM, Comcast wrote: > > Of course. But it’s also important to note that Adobe doesn’t hold one’s > files for ransom. Just the ability to access the work that you’ve done, and make updates later. For people who use photoshop $10/month is a great deal. For people

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Comcast
Of course. But it’s also important to note that Adobe doesn’t hold one’s files for ransom. Paul > On Apr 22, 2023, at 4:09 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > It seems very easy for people to forget that what works, or doesn’t work, > for them is not a universal answer. > > >> On Apr 22, 2023,

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Larry Colen
It seems very easy for people to forget that what works, or doesn’t work, for them is not a universal answer. > On Apr 22, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 22.04.23 um 20:53 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: > >> Anyway, I continue to be glad it's working well for you. It really

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Comcast
I don’t use Lightroom, but I know the Adobe photo package comes with a cloud version and an installed version. I use ACR and photoshop, save all my pics on two external drives and back them up on Dropbox. Paul > On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:09 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 22.04.23 um 18:51

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 22.04.23 um 20:53 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: Anyway, I continue to be glad it's working well for you. It really doesn't matter what sort of software you use as long as you're happy with it and it gets the job you want done properly. :) Amen to that. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher -

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 22.04.23 um 18:51 schrieb Comcast: I don’t know what “ransomware” is, but photoshop online has been a great deal. It’s installed on my box and faster than the last CC version. It costs ten bucks a month and includes bridge, ACR, photoshop, Lightroom and more. It upgrades automatically so I

Re: If I had a photography bucket list item ...

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Apr 20, 2023, at 8:00 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: > > … it would be to get another 8x10 and have a pilot fly me to some place in > northern Canada or Alaska where nobody has been or photographed yet. And then > do it. > > Also, I’d like to have Elon Musk fly me to Mars to

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Apr 22, 2023, at 8:29 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 22.04.23 um 16:48 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: >> Ralf, I'm glad ON1 is working so well for you. >> >> I tested it pretty thoroughly some time back and found that it was near to >> unusable for my work. It seems to never stop

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Comcast
I don’t know what “ransomware” is, but photoshop online has been a great deal. It’s installed on my box and faster than the last CC version. It costs ten bucks a month and includes bridge, ACR, photoshop, Lightroom and more. It upgrades automatically so I get all the latest features. Paul >

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 22.04.23 um 16:48 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: Ralf, I'm glad ON1 is working so well for you. I tested it pretty thoroughly some time back and found that it was near to unusable for my work. It seems to never stop processing and be finished with a job, no matter how small the number of files

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread ann sanfedele
Yes and no.  I'm remembering an older shot I think, without the people on the beach.. and yes I mixed up the names .. the people on the beach and the light house make the shot for me that I was confused about...  I just generally find straight shots of the side of a large modern day ship

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Ralf, I'm glad ON1 is working so well for you. I tested it pretty thoroughly some time back and found that it was near to unusable for my work. It seems to never stop processing and be finished with a job, no matter how small the number of files I gave it to work on. After a month of trying

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The latest update of LR Classic incorporates this "AI noise reduction" as well. I'll have to go backwards in time to find some older photos that need it, that I have already processed in older versions of LR and saved as TIFFs, so see what difference it makes. In general, none of my current

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The latest update of LR Classic incorporates this "AI noise reduction" as well. I'll have to go backwards in time to find some older photos that need it, that I have already processed in older versions of LR and saved as TIFFs, so see what difference it makes. In general, none of my current

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 22.04.23 um 15:56 schrieb ann sanfedele: I"m guessing ON1 is something I can't afford :-( The regular price for a perpetual license is around 90 dollars but it drops as low as fifty-odd towards the end of the year. I have sooo many slides..  LIke this shot of the Pride of Bruges .. more

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread ann sanfedele
This one : https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/pride-of-bruges-fotoralfbe/45950975 maybe your email software stripped what I was replying to? ann On 4/22/2023 10:01 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: "LIke this shot of the Pride of Bruges" Which shot? Dan Matyola

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread ann sanfedele
I"m guessing ON1 is something I can't afford :-(   The results are stunning  though.. I have sooo many slides..  LIke this shot of the Pride of Bruges .. more interesting to my eye than the straight shot of the side of her... ann On 4/22/2023 5:31 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 21.04.23

Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 21.04.23 um 21:22 schrieb Paul Stenquist: Has anyone else on the list tried this? It’s a function in the latest version of ACR that is said to use SI for noise reduction. It does a very nice job. Still trying to decide if it looks natural, but it can certainly save a noisy shot. All

Re: A random XKCD strip that turned up today

2023-04-22 Thread mike wilson
The lengths they will go to for point scoring, though... > On 22/04/2023 00:33 Comcast wrote: > > > HAR! Love the obsessive photographers. They’re focused! > > Paul > > > On Apr 21, 2023, at 7:18 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > > I occasionally see what a random XKCD strip turns up > >